Celebrate World Cup finals at one of the official watch parties or enjoy Shakespeare, movies, or music outdoors.
Sunset Concerts
Skirball Cultural Center | 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles | July 16 | skirball.org
Grammy-winner Cory Henry blends funk, gospel, and jazz with his band The Funk Apostles. Inglewood’s Katalyst, a nine-piece ensemble, will showcase a mix of experimental contemporary jazz. Sunset Concerts are free, with walk-up tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Shakespeare by the Sea
Polliwog Park | 1601 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Manhattan Beach | July 16-17 | shakespearebythesea.org
Garfield Park | 1000 Park Ave., South Pasadena | July 18-19
Roxbury Park | 471 Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills | July 22
In “Macbeth,” a Scottish general whose ambitious quest for power, fueled by a prophecy and his wife’s encouragement, leads to a descent into tyranny, paranoia, and his ultimate downfall. Admission is free.
‘The Lord of the RIngs: The Fellowship of the Ring’ in Concert
The Peacock Theater | 777 Chick Hearn Court, Los Angeles | July 16-18 | axs.com
The Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Children’s Chorus joins forces with Pacific Symphony, soprano Kaitlyn Lusk, and voices/LA, for “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” in concert. The epic motion picture will be projected on a 60-foot screen accompanied by Howard Shore’s Academy and Grammy award-winning score performed live on stage by 238 musicians. Tickets: $62.09 to $201.93
‘We Will Rock You’
California Theatre of the Performing Arts Tickets | 562 W. 4th St., San Bernardino | July 17-18 | californiatheatre.net
Featuring more than 20 hit Queen songs including “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” and “We Will Rock You,” “We Will Rock You” follows two revolutionaries as they try to save rock ‘n’ roll in a post-apocalyptic world. Tickets start at $53.
Beach Movie Nights
Dockweiler Youth Center | 12505 Vista del Mar, Playa del Rey | July 17 | beaches.lacounty.gov
Enjoy a free screening of “Goat” on the sand, by the waves, and under the stars. Seating is festival-style, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Los Angeles World Cup 26 Fan Zone at Burbank
San Fernando Boulevard, Downtown Burbank (from Magnolia Boulevard to Angeleno Avenue) | July 18-19 | fanzone.dtnbur.com
Downtown Burbank will come alive with live match coverage, food, drinks, family-friendly games, soccer merch, and a free international street fair. There will also be VIP experiences like a culinary experience with celebrity Chef Geoffrey Zakarian, themed lounges, and concert experiences featuring Loud Luxury & Bebe Rexha. One-day, general admission: $28.44. VIP experiences are a separate ticketed event.
Los Angeles World Cup 26 Fan Zone at Fairplex
Fairplex | 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona | July 18-19 | fairplex.com
Experience the excitement of the FIFA World Cup at Fairplex with live match viewing, a high-energy festival atmosphere, and activities for fans of all ages. Enjoy interactive soccer games, crafts, and entertainment. General Admission: $21.10/person for all 4 games. VIP starting at $36.55. Children 5 and younger are free.
Los Angeles World Cup 26 Fan Zone at West Harbor
West Harbor | 1332 South Harbor Blvd., San Pedro | July 18-19 | westharborla.com
Experience FIFA World Cup 2026™ at West Harbor’s official Fan Zone, where the San Pedro waterfront transforms into a vibrant soccer celebration. Watch the final rounds on massive screens, enjoy live entertainment, interactive fan activities, and waterfront dining. Tickets starting at $5.
7th Annual Vaquereada Festival
Paramount Park | 14400 Paramount Blvd., Paramount | July 18 | latinasartfoundation.org
Folklorico groups and community members gather to dance the norteño rhythms, shop from community artisan vendors, participate in traditional folk dance workshops, watch community performances, do some arts & crafts, savor tasty food, and enjoy live music.
Levitt Vibe Pasadena Music Series
Memorial Park | 85 E. Holly St., Pasadena | July 18 | levittvibepasadenamusicseries.com
The Levitt VIBE Pasadena Music Series kicks off its summer run at Memorial Park with a performance by pianist Yuko Mabuchi. Her appearance is part of the series’ 10 nights of live music, food, and community celebrations throughout the summer. Admission is free.
Paul Banke BOXFAM BBQ
Memorial Park Recreation Center | 320 N. Orange Place, Azusa | July 18 | azusaca.gov
Get ready for a day of music, entertainment, food booths, and celebrity boxers from 2 to 7 p.m.
Gimme Gimme Disco
Catch One Underground | 4067 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles | July 18 | gimmegimmedisco.com
Disco is back! Boogie all night at this disco party. Early bird general admission tickets: $22.18.
Beach Streets
Kickin’ It Hub | 130 Cherry Ave., Long Beach | July 19 | longbeach.gov/beachstreets
Beach Streets embraces the active commuting lifestyle by opening streets and transforming them into safe, open areas for people to bike, walk and explore their neighborhood. Entertainment hubs along the route will feature a wide variety of entertainment, family-friendly activities, food and more.
‘Tensions, Personified’
Odyssey Theatre | 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles | July 19 | odysseytheatre.com
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s Thresholds of Invention series presents “Tensions, Personified,” an afternoon of readings of one-act plays by John Binder. In these four plays from his recently published volume of 12 short plays, Binder explores the various permutations of tensions that arise in between people — sexual, parental, friends, exes. Tickets: $25.
CicLAvia—Meet the Hollywoods
WeHo, Hollywood and East Hollywood | July 19 | ciclavia.org
Between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., CicLAvia—Meet the Hollywoods connects WeHo, Hollywood and East Hollywood (via Santa Monica Blvd between San Vicente and Highland; Highland between Santa Monica Blvd and Hollywood Blvd; and Hollywood Blvd between Orange and Virgil/Hillhurst in East Hollywood), welcoming people of all ages and abilities to enjoy this day-long 3.6-mile pop-up park. Always free, participants can enjoy the day by walking, jogging, biking, skating, or simply spectating. Participants can show up anywhere along the route. There will be four hubs filled with family-friendly activities, restrooms, free water refilling stations, free basic bike repair, bike parking, places to sit and meet up with friends and family, and first aid. Free pedicab rides are available at each hub’s information booth. In addition to the hubs, there will be a Pit Stop on Hollywood Blvd, near Wilton Pl. with water, restrooms, and free basic bike repair available. Enjoy World Cup programming and a final match watch party at the Walk of Fame Hub.
Moonlight Movies on the Beach: ‘The Lost Boys’
Granada Beach | 5000 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach | July 21 | moonlightmoviesonthebeach.com
Pack up the car with chairs, blankets and snacks and head to the beach for a free movie at sunset. Don’t want to pack food? Local food trucks and kettle corn vendors will be on site.
‘Dead Man’
Atwater Village Theatre | 3269 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles | July 21, July 28, Aug. 4 | EchoTheaterCompany.com
The Echo Theater Company and Theatre Ghosts present “Dead Man,” direct from its smash hit run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In this noir comedy clown mystery written and directed by Ann Noble, a lone private eye investigates a crime everyone wants to forget: it will definitely take more than one clown to figure it out. Somebody’s dead. Somebody must find the killer. Life is easier when everything’s black and white. Except for those pesky greys. Tickets: $20.
ONGOING
‘Mamma Mia!’
Ahmanson Theatre | 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles | Through July 19 | centertheatregroup.org
For more than 25 years, “Mamma Mia!” has brought the music of ABBA to the stage in this tale of love, friendship and the relationship between mother and daughter. Tickets: range in price.
Camarillo Heritage Days Fiesta
Old Town Camarillo | Through July 19 | camarilloheritagedays.org
Celebrate Camarillo’s heritage with carnival rides, food, local craft vendors, live music, live art, car show and more.
‘DEFIANTLY JONI: A Singer/Songwriter Bares Her Soul’
Mark Taper Forum | 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles | Through July 19 | muse-ique.com
“DEFIANTLY JONI” is an intimate tribute to Joni Mitchell’s unique genius — as well as a testament of the cultural milieu and musical streams that fed into her art and then poured out of Laurel Canyon and into a surplus of other genres and artists. Admission for non-members starts at $75 for a single admission.
‘Coriolanus’
Old Zoo in Griffith Park | Through July 26 | indieshakes.org/free-shakespeare-2026
The Independent Shakespeare Co. kicks off its free Shakespeare festival with “Coriolanus,” a surprisingly comedic political tale. In a corrupt Rome where the gap between the poor and rich widens, Roman general Coriolanus is expelled from the city over his contempt for his people. Coriolanus then sets off on a path for revenge. Arrive early for pre-show events
The Great Clown Bank Show
Atwater Village Theatre | 3269 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles | Through Aug. 1 | openfist.org
Under the cracked neon glow of the Big Top, a wild-eyed, clown-capitalist circus fantasia erupts in a fever-dream spectacle of greed, glitter and grotesque excess. The gleefully deranged story follows the rise of the Greedy family — a scheming dynasty of powder-faced hustlers who transform their tiny carnival cashbox into the most powerful clown bank in America. Tickets range from $26 to $40. Content warning: risqué language and situations; parental guidance is advised for children under 13.
‘Mexodus’
Pasadena Playhouse | 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena | Through Aug. 2 | pasadenaplayhouse.org
The season’s most award winning Off-Broadway live-looping hip-hop musical and New York Times Critic’s Pick – created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson and directed by David Mendizábal with choreography by Tony Thomas – concludes its critically acclaimed run. Playwrights, actors, and musicians Quijada and Robinson tell the story of the Underground Railroad that led south, taking 4,000 to 10,000 enslaved people to seek freedom in Mexico. Tickets start at $40.
Sawdust Art Festival
935 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach | Through Sept. 6 | sawdustartfestival.org
Discover handmade artwork from more than 180 local artists, enjoy live music, art demonstrations, take a glassblowing or mosaic class (among many offered), and soak in Laguna Beach’s beautiful scenery. Single day ticket: $12.50 for adults, $10.50 for seniors, $5.50 for children.
‘Romeo and Juliet’
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum | 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga | Through Sept. 26 | theatricum.com
Co-directors Ellen Geer and Willow Geer have set their “Romeo and Juliet” in New York City during the tumultuous Gilded Age, a period marked by stark social inequality and rampant industrialization. Through this lens, the famous love story becomes not just a tragedy, but a powerful warning about the costs of division, hatred and fear. Tickets to performances range from $15 to $63. Children 4 and under are free. Pay-What-You-Will at the performances on Monday, Aug. 3.
‘Waiting in the Wings’
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum | 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga | Through Oct. 3 | theatricum.com
Set in “The Wings,” a charity home for retired actresses, Noël Coward’s 50th play is a witty portrait of nine opinionated, funny, difficult and full of life women, each of whom once basked in public admiration — but who must now learn to face old age together, long after the curtain has fallen. A tribute to the theater that evokes the lives of aging stars, their lingering jealousies and the enduring power of friendship, Waiting in the Wings is a meditation on community and forgiveness. Old grievances linger here like half-remembered roles, but Coward suggests that bitterness is heavy to carry, and that reconciliation, no matter when, can be liberating. Tickets to performances range from $15 to $63.
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum | 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga | Through Oct. 10 | theatricum.com
Set against the natural backdrop of Topanga’s woods, this production requires no elaborate set design to conjure Shakespeare’s enchanted forest brimming with magic, mischief and romance. Audiences of all ages will be enchanted by the whimsical entanglements of four lovers, a troupe of bumbling actors, and the mischievous fairies who meddle with them. Tickets to performances range from $15 to $63. Children 4 and under are free. Pay-What-You-Will at the performances on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
‘WASHOKU | Nature and Culture in Japanese Cuisine’
Japan House LA | 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles | Through Oct. 18 | japanhousela.com
This landmark exhibition explores the core elements, evolution, and cultural significance of washoku, a UNESCO-recognized intangible cultural heritage.
‘Treasure Island’
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum | 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga | Through Oct. 3 | theatricum.com
In this re-imagining of the novel by Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer, a young man’s romantic dream of pirates on the high seas becomes a harrowing reality. Tested at every turn, young Jim Hawkins faces each challenge with courage, trusting in a moral compass strong enough to triumph — and to discover the true treasure: a life lived with integrity and purpose. Tickets to performances range from $15 to $63. The performance on Monday, Aug. 10 is Pay-What-You-Will (available online the week of the performance or pay cash at the door) and features a 30-minute pre-show discussion, beginning one hour before curtain, at 6:30 p.m.
‘Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo’
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | 6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles | Through Jan. 10 | academymuseum.org
The Academy Museum presents Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo, celebrating the artistry of Studio Ghibli and the hand-drawn animation behind the 2008 film. The exhibition features over 100 original materials from Studio Ghibli, including art boards, posters, an animation desk, and hand drawings by Hayao Miyazaki, many on display in North America for the first time. Curated by Jessica Niebel with assistant curator Emily Rauber Rodriguez. The museum is open six days a week, closed on Tuesdays. Tickets $15–$25; film screenings $5–$10.
‘Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon’
Academy Museum | 6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles | Through Feb. 28 | academymuseum.org
“Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon” will celebrate Marilyn Monroe as a visionary actor and image-maker, examining the many facets of how she created and shaped her public image in the context of the classical Hollywood studio system. The pink satin gown will be on view in the exhibition, located on Level 3 in the Rolex Gallery. General admission tickets for the museum’s exhibitions are $25 for adults, $19 for seniors (age 62+), and $15 for students.